Palaeo-Hebrew and Greek biblical manuscripts
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Palaeo-Hebrew and Greek biblical manuscripts
（Discoveries in the Judaean desert, 9 . Qumran cave 4 ; 4）
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1992
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Description
This volume inaugurates the publication of the biblical Dead Sea Scrolls from the main collection discovered in Cave 4 at Qumran. It contains ten biblical manuscripts from Genesis to Deuteronomy and Job. Six are written in the ancient Palaeo-Hebrew script and four are in Greek. There are also five hitherto unknown compositions. The Hebrew texts antedate by a millennium what had previously been the earliest surviving biblical codices in the original language, and they
document the pluriform nature of the ancient biblical textual tradition before the text became standardized. The most extensive and significant manuscript, 4QpaleoExodm, exhibits the expanded textual tradition that formed the basis for the Samaritan Pentateuch and illumines the historical and
theological relationship between the Jews and the Samaritans. Fragments of an unidentified Greek text mention Moses, Pharaoh, and Egypt, suggesting some development of the Exodus theme, and further witnessing to the rich religious literature to which Rabbinic Judaism and nascent Christianity were heirs. An index of all the biblical manuscripts from Qumran Cave 4 and their distribution in other Discoveries in the Judaean Desert volumes is provided, and there are also forty pages of
plates from the manuscripts.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: the system of naming and numbering the Qumran scrolls
- archaeological provenance and dating
- introductions to the individual editions
- transcriptions, notes and variants
- photographs and plates
- the palaeography and date of the Greek manuscripts, P.J.Parsons. Part 1 Biblical manuscripts: palaeo-Hebrew manuscripts
- Septuagint manuscripts. Part 2 Parabiblical manuscripts: palaeo-Hebrew manuscripts
- Greek manuscripts.
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